Just a few years ago, many CEO’s, according to The
Washington Post, were calling for raising the retirement age to
70. But here is the catch: Most of these people don’t actually want to hire or
keep on people who are past the age of 50. So what are these potential workers
supposed to do between the age of 50 and 70? They may be fit enough to work,
but corporate America doesn’t want them around. Perhaps our corporate masters
just want them to sit around for 20 years until retirement age. Of course most
will starve and die off by then, but that may be the actual plan.

According to Yahoo
Finance,unemployed
and those of 50 and older are now living in an economy where employers just
don’t want them. According to that article those over 50 are facing a jobless
future.

The Article makes it clear:

For those over 50 and unemployed, the statistics
are grim. While unemployment rates for Americans nearing retirement are lower
than for young people who are recently out of school, once out of a job, older
workers have a much harder time finding work. Over the last year, according to
the Labor Department, the average duration of unemployment for older people was
53 weeks, compared with 19 weeks for teenagers.

There are numerous reasons — older workers have
been hit both by the recession and globalization. They’re more likely to have
been laid off from industries that are downsizing, and since their salaries
tend to be higher than those of younger workers, they’re attractive targets if
layoffs are needed.

One of the biggest changes in the new economy is that our
corporate masters no longer value loyalty. Today’s workers can be thrown out as
easily as yesterday’s trash:

“The contract used to be, ‘I am a loyal employee
and you are a loyal employer. I promise to work for you my entire career and
you train, promote, give benefits and a pension when I retire.’ Now you can’t
count on any of that,” Nadya Fouad, a professor of educational
psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said. “The onus is all on the employee to have a portfolio of skills
that can be transferable…..

….. And even
more, “they should know the problem is not with them but with a system that has
treated them like a commodity that can be discarded,” said David L. Blustein, a
professor of counseling, developmental and educational psychology at the Lynch
School of Education at Boston College, who works with the older unemployed in
suburb of Boston. “I try to help clients get in touch with their anger about
that. They shouldn’t blame themselves.”

The bottom line is that there is no solution being sought
for those over 50 and looking for work. Reality is that right now our society
just doesn’t care. The Yahoo article
offers absolutely no suggestions or hope at all:

But the reality is that the problem of the older unemployed “was
acute during the Great Recession, and is now chronic,” (Susan Sipprelle, producer of the Web siteoverfiftyandoutofwork.comand the documentary“Set for Life”) said. “People’s lives have
been upended by the great forces of history in a way that’s never happened
before, and there’s no other example for older workers to look at. Some can’t
recoup, though not through their own fault. They’re the wrong age at the wrong time.It’s cold comfort, but better
than suggesting that if you just dye your hair, you’ll get that job.”

As a person at the age of
58 I would like to find a new full time job. I’m years away from retirement.
But so far my prospects suck. The one bright spot in my career is this blog. It
is the only outlet I have for a system that takes everything it can and gives
back nothing. Our corporate masters have made it clear they don’t care about
older workers and the reality is, they really don’t care about any of their
workers. We are like modern day surfs for corporate masters who see themselves
as modern day aristocrats who just don’t give a damn about anyone but
themselves, and with all the new high tech tricks they have developed to
minipulate elections to their advantage, they believe they are beyond the reach
of any workers wrath. They figure there is nothing the American worker can do
if they are treated badly.

Those as myself will
continue to look for the Achilles'heelthat will eventually bring down these
corporate tyrants. As for those as myself—we have little else to do.

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